Three ways a course gets delivered
Your site, an ITF-arranged venue or live online, with an honest account of what each one costs you in learning.
- Default
- Your site, using your own documents
- Languages
- Arabic, English, or Arabic delivery with English material
- Coverage
- Riyadh and the Eastern Province; elsewhere with travel shown
- Venue
- Arranged per course, named when dates are confirmed
- Material handover
- A week before each course
- Emergency response
- Your site only, mobilisation set at scoping
ITF delivers courses on your site by default, at an ITF-arranged venue, or live online with a trainer. Courses run in Arabic, English or both. We work on site across Saudi Arabia. Emergency response courses run on your site only, because their practicals use your equipment and your routes.
- 01 Enquiry
- 02 Needs analysis
- 03 Programme design
- 04 Scheduling
- 05 Delivery
- 06 Assessment
- 07 Certification
- 08 Records
Three ways a course gets delivered sits at step 5 of the delivery cycle. You receive course materials and an attendance record.
What online actually costs you
Live online is not a lesser version of every course. It is worse for some and better for one.
It suits AI and digital tools best, because everyone is at a keyboard anyway and the artefact gets built in the tool the participant will use. It is fine for root cause analysis, document control and corrective action, where the work is analytical and the exercises are paper exercises.
It is materially worse for the internal auditor courses, because interview practice loses most of its realism through a screen and the ISO 45001 site walk cannot happen at all. It is worse for HACCP, because the flow diagram never gets verified on the line, and for permit to work, because the course runs on generic forms instead of yours. It is impossible for the food handler handwashing assessment and for every emergency response practical.
So the answer is not one mode for everything. It is the mode that keeps the assessed part of the course real, and where you ask for a mode that weakens a course, we tell you what you are giving up before you book.
Mode by mode
Live online here means a trainer teaching in real time, not recorded video.
| Mode | What it gives you | Where it falls short |
|---|---|---|
| Your site | Exercises on your documents, processes and hazards. Practicals on the real thing. No travel for participants, and the exercise output stays in the business. | Needs a room, and participants released from the floor |
| ITF-arranged venue | Neutral ground, useful when you have no suitable room or participants come from several of your sites. | Scenario packs instead of your material |
| Live online, with a trainer | Large groups, several sites, and shift patterns that would otherwise need the same course run three times. | No site walk, weaker interview practice, no physical practical |
| Languages | Management system and skills courses run in Arabic, English, or Arabic delivery with English material, the usual request for a mixed room. Emergency response runs in English as standard, with Arabic quoted separately. | Confirm at booking, because it decides the trainer |
The same records in every mode
The mode changes the room. It does not change what you hold afterwards.
Joining instructions
Per course: the venue or the link, the start time, the participant list, the language, and what each person brings.
Attendance and assessment records
An attendance record and a marked assessment per participant, whether the course ran on your site, at a venue or online.
Numbered certificates
A numbered ITF certificate of completion for each participant who meets the assessment criteria, and nobody else.
The training register entry
One line per participant per course, ready to drop into your training matrix, with the expiry date on emergency response courses.
From confirmed dates to the records
- 01
Dates and joining instructions
Confirmed dates, the venue or the link, the participant list, the language, and what each person needs to bring.
- 02
Material handover
You send the documents. We rebuild the exercises on them and tell you if anything is missing.
- 03
Delivery
Run by a trainer who meets the standard for that course, with the assessed work done in the room rather than sent home.
- 04
Assessment and marking
Per participant, against the marking guide for that course. A participant who does not meet the criteria does not get a certificate, and we tell you which person and why.
- 05
Certificates and records
A ITF certificate of completion per participant who met the criteria, the attendance record, the assessment results and the training register entry.
Three courses in one programme
A group with a head office in Riyadh and a plant in Dammam needed ISO 9001:2026 awareness, HACCP and emergency response in the same quarter.
ISO 9001:2026 awareness ran live online for head office staff, in two sessions around their working day, because the course is discussion and paper exercises and survives a screen. HACCP ran on site at the plant, so the team could verify its flow diagram on the actual line. The emergency response programme ran at both locations, because its practicals need each site's own extinguishers, assembly points and routes.
The group ended up holding one set of records across all three courses: joining instructions per course, attendance and assessment records per participant, the certificates, and register entries in the same format for both locations.
Choosing a mode by course
Where we push back on a request. This is the part a provider selling convenience leaves out.
Courses that lose their point elsewhere
The ISO 45001 internal auditor site walk, HACCP flow diagram verification, permit to work on your own forms, the food handler handwashing assessment, and every emergency response practical.
- The assessed part of each of these is physical
- Emergency response runs on your site and nowhere else
- For the food handler course the sink is part of the assessment
Courses that travel well
Awareness courses, risk assessment, corrective action and the FSSC scheme requirements. Discussion and paper exercises, which survive a venue or a screen.
- On site still wins because the material is yours
- A venue suits groups drawn from several sites
- Online suits a shift pattern that would need three runs
One course where the screen helps
AI and digital tools in operations. Everyone is at a keyboard, the artefact is built in the tool they will actually use, and screen sharing beats a projector.
- Participants need a laptop either way
- The artefact is built and assessed live
- Large groups work without splitting the course
Nights, weekends and coverage
Half-day formats exist for shift patterns rather than as a discount. Running a course twice around a shift change is normal.
- Food handler and cybersecurity awareness run before or after a shift
- Coverage is tracked in one matrix across shifts and sites
- Weekend and night delivery is scheduling, not an exception
Practical questions
Do you have a training centre we can come to?
Not a fixed one today. Venue delivery is arranged per course, and we name the venue when the dates are confirmed. On-site is the default and is usually the better option anyway.
What do you need from us?
Your documents a week ahead, and two or three anonymised findings for the audit and corrective action courses. A room, a screen and released participants. Site access and your PPE rules where a course walks your site. The participant list and the room's language mix.
Can you deliver in Arabic and English in one room?
Yes, and it is the usual request on mixed teams: Arabic delivery with English material. Tell us the makeup of the room at booking so the right trainer and the right handouts are scheduled.
Do you deliver outside Riyadh and the Eastern Province?
Yes. Sites elsewhere in the Kingdom are quoted with travel shown as its own line, so you can see it rather than find it inside a day rate.
What happens if a participant does not pass?
No certificate. They can retake the assessment on a later run. We would rather tell you a person has not met the criteria than hand you a record that says they have.
Can we record the session?
Ask before the day. Where a session uses other participants' real findings or a worker interview exercise, recording changes what people will say, and that costs the course more than the recording is worth.
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Scheduling and the calendar
How dates get set around prayer times, Ramadan, the heat and your audit date.
Read moreProgrammeIn-house and corporate programmes
Where delivery becomes a sequence and the matrix becomes the deliverable.
Read moreCatalogueThe course catalogue
Every course with its length, level and family.
Read moreFAQTraining questions answered
The certificate, languages, booking and the emergency response terms.
Read morePart of one system
Every division keeps records to the same standard, so the second one you need works the way the first one did.
Tell us the constraint
Most delivery decisions are really rota decisions, and the mode that fits the rota is not always the mode that keeps the course intact. Tell us the headcount, the shifts and the sites and we will say where the tradeoff sits.